Mobile Enterprise with HDMI, Bluetooth devices and more
Thorsten Heins talked about BlackBerry 10 devices as the only device you’ll need … I’m just working on a mobile business app where BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 will be the only devices: no extra server overhead. I will go into the details in other articles next months. For now imagine following business use-cases from a…
Attn Crossword Lovers: Astraware Announces Astraware Crosswords For BlackBerry Z10!
Not only are they announcing this great Crosswords app for BlackBerry Z10, but it’s their first BlackBerry app for BlackBerry 10 OS. I like having the crossword puzzle on the phone versus the Sunday paper or buying a crossword magazine. I’m really glad to see different developers bringing their apps to the BlackBerry 10 os…
Unity BlackBerry 10 Open Beta For Developers
Unity has announced a BlackBerry 10 Open Beta making it easier for developers to bring their games to BlackBerry 10. There are Unity games in BlackBerry World right now including Air Attack, CreaVures, Dark Nebula: Episode One, Fractal, Gravity Lab, Psychoban, Roboto, Samurai II Vengeance, SHADOWGUN and Sushi Chop . This is the message from Unity: Be one of the first Unity developers to port your content…
Back in Life After BlackBerry Live
BlackBerry Live and BBJam: the week in Orlando was an energizing week for me as a developer of mobile business apps. As you probably know I’m a native Cascades developer and want to give you a summarize from my personal POV. For me most important from BlackBerry Live: Q5 – a new BlackBerry 10 device…
BlackBerry Gives BlackBerry Dev Alpha Devices a Quasi-Lease On Life
Some of you might still have BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha A or B devices that you did not swap in for a limited edition Z10. If you fall into that category you may have known that on June 30th 2013 those devices were set to be deactivated and bricked. BlackBerry actually explained a bit of…
BlackBerry Jam Asia and Jam Europe Dates & Locations Confirmed
Don pointed out that BlackBerry has published the dates and locations for BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013 and BlackBerry Jam Europe 2014 this week. BlackBerry Jam Asia will happen on September 26-27th in Hong Kong and you can sign up for details here. BlackBerry Jam Europe will be held on January 14-15th in Barcelona, Spain and…
Unity Gaming Engine To Be Free for Independent Developers Soon
Unity has decided to shake up the multi-platform gaming engine market they play in with a free offer of their mobile publishing tools. They are allowing individual developers and startup studios to download Unity free. The only people who will have to pay are companies and incorporated entities with a turnover in excess of $100,000…
Watch the BlackBerry Jam Session on Background Services for BlackBerry 10 (Headless Apps)
The “can’t miss” session from BlackBerry Jam this year for developers was JAM47 on “Background Services – Event Driven Processing for your Application.” This session covered the upcoming Background Services framework currently being used by some developers and coming in BlackBerry OS 10.2. This new Background Services framework will allow developers to run actions and…